Repeat after me: My Happiness Matters

Don’t let life’s obstacles consume you and weigh you down that you forget what it feels like to be genuinely happy. One of the hardest things to do is to keep on pretending to be happy and putting on a front in front of others, but deep down inside you’re slowly losing yourself. I personally have been through this and after a while it gets harder and harder to pretend. However, you shouldn’t have to fake being happy. Life is hard and I’m not going to pretend like you will not go through anything and your life will be peaches and cream. Some of us will go through some of the hardest challenges and battles. But do you know that everything you go through there’s a valuable lesson to be learned? Your battles are not meant to defeat you, but to help you grow and blossom. Your first step of course is realizing that you’re fading away from your happiness. You then need to vow to change that and make a plan to what needs to change and take place in your life. Most importantly you have to be willing to stick to your plan. Maybe you’re focusing so hard on trying to please your family and make them proud that you’re not doing what brings you joy. Realize that YOUR happiness stems from YOU. You can’t please everyone and please yourself at the same time. Sometimes it takes for us to be selfish and put ourselves and our needs before anyone else and that is okay. I’m not worried about doing something in my life to make someone else happy, I’m just trying to make MYSELF proud of me. Let me tell you that one of the best feelings is achieving something that you initially had self-doubt about. Tell yourself that you are destined for greatness and that your happiness matters. I don’t care about where I’ve been or what I’ve been through, but I care about my present and preparing for my future. My goal is to be so full of joy that whomever I come in contact with is able to feel my joy. You know why…because MY HAPPINESS MATTERS!!!